[LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] MT7620A WiFi issue - with a twist!

[Weedy]

On 5 February 2017 at 16:58, Alberto Bursi <alberto.bursi at outlook.it> wrote:
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> On 02/05/2017 05:37 PM, Daniel Golle wrote:
>> Hi Alberto,
>> It's the first time I'm trying to get work compensated by the community
>> and I'm not sure whether kickstarter is the right way to go -- though
>> I've written clearly that the initial goal would cover one night of
>> hacking on rt2x00 and additional funds would pay for additional hours,
>> I'm not sure whether everyone got that. Maybe I'll just need to stop
>> at some point today, because by now, I've been working on MT7620-
>> related stuff for more hours than I'd ever work for that amount of
>> money. Surely, my motivation isn't purely economic in that case, I
>> actually have some idealistic and educational goals as well, which is
>> also why I started upstreaming the rt2x00 patches. However, I also
>> don't want to leave the impression that I'd work for less than minimum
>> wage on stuff which I'm only capable of doing because I've been hacking
>> on kernel code for something like a decade by now. And as it looks like
>> right now, this can work for a weekend, but cannot become a habbit,
>> simply because I can't afford that luxury if it only pays the minimum
>> I've been asking for initially -- probably I just need to create new
>> projects on kickstarter for each phase of work, but that also seems
>> like a lot of overhead given that I'd rather work on code than spending
>> time on a rather annoying JavaScript-application running in my browser
>> and eating half of the RAM of my machine...
>>
>> So if you now any better method or service than kickstarter which
>> allows me to follow the street-musician-protocol while hacking on
>> FOSS code, that'd be highly appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> Daniel
>>
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> IMHO crowd-funding is a good way for FOSS.
> It allows people that are unable to actually develop to help out by
> sending money so that those that can develop can do so more freely.
> As long as this concept is stated clearly, everything should be fine.
> Afaik it's unrealistic to expect top pay out of it, but it will help out
> on things you are probably going to do anyway.
>
> Crowd-funding in general requires you to actually devote some time to
> post somewhat regular updates (with proof of what you did if possible,
> for FOSS it's easy as you just push sources on a public repo so people
> can see them and test them maybe).
> The idea is keeping the people informed of what you did with their
> money. You can see this if you look at any other half-decent
> crowdfunding project on Kickstarter or everywhere else.
>
> Kickstarter usually favors projects that drop from the sky and storm the
> place weapons-blazing, so to speak. It isn't for everyone.
> Like for example this, the Krita open source painting software (this is
> the third round they get decent founding for yearly development on
> kickstarter)
> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-free-paint-app-lets-make-it-faster-than-phot
> You can see that they posted lots of content about what they would do,
> and also stretch goals and whatever, and used many images too, big
> goals, great hopes, hype everywhere. This helps attract attention and
> donations in a relatively short time.
>
> For example, kickstarter has "stretch goals", goals that unlock more
> features beyond the one for the main goal. You might add that for every
> XXX$ money sent you will be able to devote another weekend or something
> to look at it or whatever. So you can keep people motivated in sending
> donations.
>
> For your need to keep the overhead low for a potential next run, I'd
> personally recommend to look at the Patreon site instead.
> https://www.patreon.com
> It is a crowd-funding site born in 2013 for paying artists (and is quite
> big in this), but is also being used by software developers.
>
> The main difference with kickstarter is that its main concept is
> allowing (many) people to set up a (relatively small) monthly donation
> and become "patrons" of an artist (kinda like in the old times where
> artists were hosts of a single rich patron, notice the similarity with
> "Patreon" name of the site). It thus requires less fanfare than
> Kickstarter, but regular updates are still good.
>
> I'd like to cite as an example of "using Patreon right" Kent Overstreet
> (he made bcache, currently in mainline linux and also in production use)
> that is using it to get some support for his next project, bcachefs
> https://www.patreon.com/bcachefs
> As you see he is getting around 870$ a month, which isn't that bad, but
> of course it's not anywhere near top pay for his skills.
>
> As a last point, I'd like to repeat what I said in the mail you
> responded to. Every now and then it's good to send a mail to the main
> open source news sites with updates or whatnot so they can post a news
> article about you and attract some attention (and donations/patrons) on
> your project.
>
> -Alberto

https://www.bountysource.com/issues/32309542-no-connection-on-wlan-in-2-4g

Looks like you can collect on this one too. You got a lot of comment
on how the LEDE merge made Xiaomi stuff not suck. And the main backer
owns Xiaomi.